Gentleman and Soldier

A Biography of Wade Hampton III

Autor: Edward G. Longacre

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: University of Nebraska Press

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Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in...

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Autor

Edward G. Longacre

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2009

strony

352

EAN

9780803213548

ISBN

0803213549

Enbook ID

04922376

Wydawca

University of Nebraska Press

Waga

455

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 23

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Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818a"1902) a Confederate general whose life provides a unique sweeping insight into the entire history of the Civil War in the South. Hampton was a leading citizen of South Carolina before the war and the highest-ranking cavalry leader on either side during the war. He fought in a remarkable number of battles from Antietam to Gettysburg to Bentonville and after the war served as governor of South Carolina and in the U.S. Senate.Hamptona's life however was one of dramatic contradictions. He was the quintessential slave owner who nonetheless questioned the ethical underpinnings of the ai??peculiar institution.ai?? He was a pre-war spokesperson for national unity but became an avid secessionist. He condemned violence and abhorred duelling but he probably killed more opponents in battle than any other general with the possible exception of Nathan Bedford Forrest. He ai??redeemedai?? South Carolina from Reconstruction but then extended more political benefits to African Americans than any other Democratic governor in the post-war South. For more than forty years he gave selflessly of himself to his state and his community not only when wealthy but also when teetering on the abyss of poverty.

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